Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script: "Happiness is a thick, paralyzing pastry settling down on one's everyday life." But so far happiness has not stifled Bergman's creative inspiration. Last week most of his next film, a comedy called The Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies he has in mind. He will probably make most of them in Sweden. "I have spent 15 years forging my instrument," he says...
...Existentialist. Hollywood is trying hard to persuade him. Harry Belafonte recently offered him the chance to make a movie with Belafonte in the role of Aleksander Pushkin, the octoroon who was Russia's greatest poet. Bergman declined with thanks (said he: "Pushkin was a genius. Belafonte is not"). And a Hollywood producer has reportedly offered him twelve times the modest annual income (about $22,000) he realizes from all four of his careers if he will make a picture with a big Hollywood star. Bergman has "indicated interest" in making a screen version of The Fall, by Albert Camus...
...hard-driving efforts, Karin De Long is paid $4,750 a year. With a master's degree and merit raises, she could rise to $9,500 in another 15 years. She may not last that long as a teacher. But for as long as she stays on the job, Teacher De Long intends to give English composition the full treatment. Says she: "So much misunderstanding in the world is based on the inability of someone to express his true feelings to somebody else...
Told in neat, revue-skit-sized flashbacks, The Good Soup uses a good deal of stage material that is somewhat reminiscent itself. Its scenes are oftener familiar and hard-headed than lighthearted and original, so that in terms of lightly farcical entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though...
...floors of his pair of circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space for 700 boats, a theater, a ten-story office building, and a park. Cost: $36 million, to be financed by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Employees' International Union. It was the first time that such a project has been...